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How to Monitor Your Children’s Health

Easily Stay On Top of Your Kid’s Health & Wellness

Stay Organized & Up-to-Date on Your Children’s Medical Information

At the beginning of each school year, many children have their annual well-child exams, sports physicals, dentist appointments, optometrist check-ups, and immunization shots.

Most parents will do a head-to-toe evaluation of their child’s health and wellness around this time. Afterwards, parents tend to set the cruise-control and not monitor their children’s health as closely, unless they become obviously sick.

Keeping track of your children’s health is important at all times of the year. It’s also important to continually monitor their eating and exercise habits, as well as allergies. These tend to fluctuate depending on the season. Raising healthy children and setting a good example will help them grow into healthy adults.

Allow paramedics to most effectively treat your child in an emergency situation

There is a lot of information to keep up-to-date, and it can be hard to find it all if it is not well-organized and shared between parents.

You should have up-to-date information on;

Immunizations

Allergies

Medications

Dentist Visits

Orthodontist Visits

Hospital Visits

Surgeries

Height

Weight

Preexisting Conditions

Vision

Hearing

Illnesses

Mental Health

Eating and Exercise Habits

It is important for both parents to have current records of your children’s vaccinations, dentist visits, doctors visits, and medications; both past and present.

If your ex is unable, or unwilling, to provide you with this paperwork, you may contact the medical providers’ office(s) directly and ask for the official records of your children’s visits. If you need immunization records, you can also contact your children’s school. If you are still having trouble locating your children’s immunization records, you can fill out a form on the Washington State Department of Health website to have the records released to you.

Remember that you are doing this because it is what is best for your children. Be ready to listen and compromise in order to develop a strategy that both you and your ex-wife can agree on.

In the case of an emergency, you may be asked to quickly come up with the contact information for one of your children’s care providers. Be sure that you and your ex-wife both have these contacts with you at all times.

Keep up-to-date contact information for any and all;

Teachers

Babysitters

Caregivers

Doctors

Coaches

Once you have gathered all the necessary information, you can begin to organize it into one of the many available health tracking apps, or create a physical health tracking worksheet (you can download our Free Children’s Health & Wellness Tracking Sheet by clicking here), so that you will have quick access to all of your children’s health and wellness information.

Daily Dosage Worksheet

An easy to use worksheet that helps keep track of the last time you provided your child with medicine. A great resource for sharing information with others who may be caring for your child; such as a grandparent, a babysitter, or another parent.

Recommended: Child Health Monitoring Worksheet

A simple, single-page, printable worksheet that allows you to keep track of the most important information regarding your child’s health and wellness. Provided at no-cost by Divorce Lawyers for Men and Morris – Sockle as a complimentary resource to this article. It covers all of the major points outlined throughout.

Download it, print it out, fill it out, and laminate it so you always have your child’s most important health information available. Remember to update the information regularly.

CDC Vaccines

With this app, you can get access to immunization schedules for your children.

Just enter your child’s age for a full vaccine schedule or a catch-up immunization schedule if they are missing vaccines. You can record your child’s vaccinations and set a reminder for when they need their next one.

CareMap

This app stores all the information you need about your children’s health, allergies, and medical history.

It allows you to share all information with any caretaker or family member. It provides insights and charts so you can keep track of your child’s health over time. It also stores emergency contact information that can be accessed quickly.

KidsDoc

What do you do if your child develops a sore throat or a fever?

What can you do if your child gets stung by a bee?

This app can answer those questions.

It provides care guides that help you understand your child’s illness and symptoms. The app will help you make decisions on how you can manage your child’s illness or if you need to take them to a hospital.

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